objsys@netcom.com (Bob Hathaway) writes:>It appears most (or a lot) of Lisp is now compiled, and according to one>respondent, when stripped bare runs twice as slow as standard code.

I have seen various lists of benchmarks of C vs XXX. Sometimes C
wins, sometimes XXX wins. It depends on what you are doing. Here are
a few numbers for Scheme & C (from the Gabrial suite). Note that
these are old benchmarks and compilers are constantly improving--other
benchmark disclaimers apply. These just happened to be published (see
below) and handy.